The remark came a day after Jaitley indicated at a FICCI gathering that passage of Goods and Services Bill may not be possible in the winter session of Parliament and that a delayed bill is better than a flawed one.

Chidambaram asked the government to accept three “weighty objections of Congress so that the bill could be passed.

“Congress’ three weighty objections & the bill could be passed. One per cent tax is anyway dead. Scrap the provision,” he said in another tweet.

One percent tax is anyway dead. Scrap the provision. No state is opposed to independent dispute resolution mechanism. Set it up.

On the other Congress objection that the bill should provide a mechanism for grievance redress, Chidambaram also tweeted that “No state is opposed to independent dispute resolution mechanism. Set it up.”

Jaitley had on Saturday accused the Congress of delaying the long-pending GST due to “collateral reasons”. “As far as GST is concerned. I have no doubt in my mind that an attempt to delay it is entirely for collateral reasons.

And the only collateral reason I suspect is if I couldn’t do it, then why should somebody else do it?”,” the Finance Minister said at the FICCI meet.